Deadline: 18-Nov-22
The Cumberland Building Society is offering funding through its Community Fund to support the great work of local charitable, not-for-profit organisations from across the region.
Grant Categories
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Strategic Grants
- Larger, multi-year grants of up to £25,000 to improve or maintain the capacity of organisations promoting the financial health and wellbeing of people. Funding can be used to provide an opportunity to scale up promising innovations and/or improve existing initiatives.
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Community Grants
- Grants of up to £5,000 to community organisations that improve the life skills, education, employability and enterprise of disadvantaged people, or support vulnerable, older people. These are likely to be one-off grants.
- Priority will be given to projects that can demonstrate a clear need and/or demand for their service.
Funding & Duration Information
- Strategic grants of up to £25,000 for three years
- Community grants of up to £5,000 over one year
Eligibility Criteria
- The Society welcome applications from those charitable, not-for-profit orgnaisations whose projects benefit the communities within operating area, Cumbria (all CA and LA postcodes), South-West Scotland (all DG postcodes and TD9), West Northumberland (NE45-49), Preston area of North Lancashire (all PR, FY, LA AND BB1-3 and BB5-7).
Ineligible
Types of requests we're unable to support:
- Requests for administration equipment, such as computers, for a charity’s own use or general expenses such as salaries
- Overseas travel, expeditions
- Events mainly for the general public such as village fetes/carnivals/concerts
- Organisations supporting other charities
- Fabric appeals for places of worship unless principally for the benefit of the community as a whole
- Activities which are mainly/normally the responsibility of central or local government or some other responsible body
- Hospitals, medical centres and medical research
- Animal Welfare
- Individuals
For more information, visit Cumberland Building Society.
For more information, visit https://www.cumberland.co.uk/community-fund